Swift hit the Brit Awards red carpet in a dragon dress, performed Blank Space, danced to Kanye West, and took home her first Brit Award for International Female Artist. Later this month, Swift released her third 1989 single Style, including the dreamy music video.

March

Taylor offered some help on the guitar to Madonna during her performance of Ghost Town at the 2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards before performing a solo set. Also that month, Swift celebrated International Women’s Day with some of her favourite women.

At the 2015 Country Music Awards, Swift was honoured with the Milestone Award and introduced by a moving speech by her mother, Andrea. Also in April, showing off why she has such a dedicated squad, Swift threw bestie Abigail a 25th birthday party that included a performance by Abigail’s favourite artist, Chris Carrabba.

The worldwide 1989 Tour kicks off with two dates in Japan and becomes the most talked about tour of years, with Swift surprising fans in every city with famous guests. Later this month, Swift releases her star-studded music video for Bad Blood, which includes cameos from Selena Gomez, Gigi Hadid, Serayah, Ellie Goulding, Martha Hunt, Hailee Steinfeld, Cara Delevigne, Zendaya, Hayley Williams, Lily Aldridge, Karlie Kloss, Jessica Alba, Ellen Pompeo, Mariska Hargitay, Cindy Crawford, Lena Dunham and Kendrick Lamar. The song broke the Vevo record for most plays in 24 hours with 20.1 million views, a record later broken this year by Adele’s Hello. Swift released the video during the Billboard Music Awards, where she took home eight awards for 1989.

Notable 1989 Tour Guests: Imagine Dragons.

June

Swift toured Europe for most of June, but took a break to post her first couple photo with boyfriend Calvin Harris on Instagram.

July was a month of celebrations for Swift, first with a Fourth of July party at her house in the Hamptons and later when she became a godmother to friend Jamie King’s new son James Knight. The month wasn’t all smooth sailing though. Swift became embroiled in a debate over race and gender when she and Nicki Minaj got in a Twitter debate over their VMA nominations.

Taylor Swift and her squad took over the MTV VMAs, killing it with their red carpet looks and debuting Swift’s video for Wildest Dreams. Swift also buried her beef with Nicki Minaj by joining the rapper onstage during her performance of The Night Is Still Young.